I don’t really have a problem with regifting. There are some things that just make great gifts that the receiver will rarely ever use. Fortunately they keep making Chia Pets so when you pass on the one you got five years ago you can pretend that you just bought it. Be sure to cover up the price tag from the discount store that went out of business. That’s always a regift giveaway.

Also, I got a few emails recently asking what my twitter address is. You can follow me here: http://twitter.com/bookofbiff where you can learn amazing things like I am allergic to cats, I eat too many cookies and occasionally link to behind the scenes Biff stuff.

You should try these things in China called Mooncakes, they are gifted for the mid-Autumn festival around September. I consider them to be the fruitcake of China and regifting them is virtually expected, and they are pretty awful in all but a few cases.

Guess I’m just lucky… My grandmother always made home-made fruitcake that was very good. Very intense too, so I always assumed that the fact that I couldn’t eat more than one slice a day was what people were going on about. Delic, but heavy.

But she’s the only one who ever gave them in my family. From teh noob’s comment – do you guys get like three or four rotating through any given tree on any given year??? Is it a local thing? I live in the Northwest, and hardly hear anything about them.

And I’ve always liked the Chinese moon cakes too. My uncle-in-law owns a couple shops in Taiwan, and they make cakes famous island-wide, especially the pineapple cakes. Better than delicious…

Properly-made fruitcake, crafted by a master baker, is indeed edible, even enjoyable; especially when heavily spiked (to the poiint of combustion) with alcohol.
But such creations are vanishingly rare in this day and age.

Well, can’t really say anything about the fruitcake because around here in Finland we have allmost nothing like it.

But heey, at least he didn’t die. I’ve heard that thing is rather unpleasant, and by looks of it (yeah, I’ve seen fruitcake once on my cousin’s table) it looks more like trying to choke you when you bite it.